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the wheat by Mr. Jones, that being its trial-bed number, and later used by him 

 as a synonym for American Bronze. Red Victory is a name applied to Pros- 

 perity by J. B. Barton, Otsego, Mich., who states that it constitutes 50 per cent 

 of the wheat being grown near Otsego, Allegan County, Mich. He wrote the 

 Office of Cereal Investigations concerning it as follows : 



I bought the seed four years ago and the farmer brought it to this locality from 

 about 45 miles north of me. The man I got it of did not know what it was, and 

 the man he got it from did not know. Before it matured the first crop for me 

 I thought it was Fultz, but as it matured I thought not, so I sent six heads to 

 Lansing to the Michigan Agricultural College, and asked them to name it. They 

 wrote me it was not Fultz, nor did it belong to the Fultz family, and I had 

 a mighty good wheat, and I could name it just as well as they could. I sold all 

 my 1918 crop for seed and, it being in the midst of the Great War, I gave it the 

 name of Red Victory. 



Silver Chaff is a name used for the Prosperity variety in New York and other 

 Eastern States. As the name also is used for Martin wheat in this section* the 

 distribution of the two varieties under this name is confused. Twentieth Cen- 

 tury is a name used for Prosperity in Monroe County, Ohio, where it constitutes 

 about 25 per cent of the wheat grown in the vicinity of Kuhn. Zinn's Golden is 

 used for Prosperity wheat in Barbour, Braxton, and Upshur Counties, W. Va. 

 Concerning the origin of the name, B. C. Rodibough, of Hall, W. Va., has written 

 as follows : 



It seems to have originated in Barbour County, W. Va., on the farm of a man 

 by the name of Zinn, and has been grown in this locality quite extensively for 

 about 15 years. 



FORWARD. 



Description. — This variety has not been grown by the writers. Spike samples 

 furnished by Dr. H. H. Love show that it is somewhat similar to Prosperity, but 

 differs in having slightly narrower and more nearly fusiform spikes and in- 

 curved apical awns. 



History. — Forward was originated by the plant-breeding department of the 

 Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Ithaca, N. T., in cooperation 

 with the Office of Cereal Investigations, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture. During the experimental stages it was known as Cornell Selection 123-32. 

 Concerning the variety, Dr. Love, who is in charge of the cooperative experi- 

 ments at Cornell, has written as follows : " 



The Forward is a white chaff, beardless, red-kerneled wheat selected out of 

 a commercial lot of Fulcaster and under test has proved to be winter hardy 

 and a good yielder. It has outyielded Fulcaster and bids fair to be one of our 

 best red-kerneled sorts. 



Distribution. — Forward was first distributed for commercial growing in New 

 York in the fall of 1920. 



SQUAREHEAD. 



Description. — Plant winter habit, late, tall ; stem white, coarse, strong ; spike 

 awnless, linear-clavate, middense, erect to inclined ; glumes glabrous, white, 

 midlong, wide; shoulders midwide, oblique to square; keel incurved above; 

 beaks wide, obtuse, 1 mm. long; apical awns few, 1 to 10 mm. long; kernels 

 red, midlong, soft, ovate, sometimes broadly ovate; germ small to midsized; 

 crease wide, deep; cheeks usually rounded; brush midsized, midlong to long. 



This and the similar varieties, Red Russian and Sol, are distinct in being very 

 late-maturing winter wheats and in having a very dense clavate spike and strong 

 straw. They are adapted for growing only in mild humid sections. Their mill- 



II Correspondence of the Office of Cereal Investigations, dated Mar. 19, 1921. 



